WWE Raw Open Discussion Thread 12/3/12: Sons Of Bossman

It’s all about The Shield these days after the black-clad attackers from Survivor Series revealed their (vague) motives in an interview with Michael Cole last week on Raw. The NXT trio declared themselves to be protectors of justice, but even as they insist they’re not on Paul Heyman’s payroll, the skeptics remain unconvinced. Elsewhere, Team Hell No reached a fork in the road, and as it turns out, John Cena does kind of like like AJ Lee. Hard to blame him, all things considered. Here’s the five-point preview for this week’s must-see Raw. (via WWE.com)

You know that when WWE.com is using (vague) as a modifier, you haven’t put enough effort into writing your show. Anyway, here’s your five-point preview:

1. Maybe we can get another chance to hear The Shield speak, to confirm that whole Ambrose = The Joker, Rollins = The Scarecrow and Reigns = Bane thing they’ve got going on. Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, available on blu-ray this Tuesday!

2. John Cena’s romance with AJ Lee will continue, or it will be crushed by Vickie’s most recent allegations (“John Cena and AJ wrote each other letters! On parchment! And used carrier pigeons!” etc.), or it will be crushed when Cena goes in for another kiss, and AJ goes, “enghhhhhhh.”

3. Antonio Cesaro will wrestle, and be the best part of the show. Him getting namedropped a few times on Chikara’s Under The Hood iPPV was almost the best part of that show.

5. If my fantasy booking for Hornswoggle and Rosa Mendes plays out, Rosa will discover that she’s in love with Horny, and Horny will suddenly be in nervous love with her, too, despite assaulting/insulting her for two weeks for no reason. Wait, that’s not my fantasy booking, that’s the only thing that could happen.

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WWE Raw Open Discussion Thread 12/3/12: Sons Of Bossman

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Real talk: Why doesn’t Dolph cash in his MITB on Smackdown or next Raw before TLC so he sticks it to Cena? At some point Punk and Show are going to be put to a near permanent end, right? So why not cash it in and troll Cena and the Universe?

I woke up this morning and re-watched the last segment of Raw because last night I was flagging in interest and having flashbacks about my own lie detector experience. Just to be clear, Ryback threw a table out of the ring just to bring a different table into the ring, right?

Nah, it was the Shield who did the furniture moving, which pissed Ryback off. That’s the only reason why he came down to the ring. There can only be one furniture moving company getting prime time advertising, damnit!

I think it’s the fact that Cena is now dating Ziggler’s ex and is absolutely squashing Ziggler in the ring. I wonder if Cena is stiffing Ziggles on purpose and saying “this is for” *enter bad thing Ziggler did to Brie Bella* here.

So your big old babyface ripoff of Goldberg needs to use all three weapons to keep the guy he’s twice the size of down? HOOOO-KAY. That does nothing for Ryback, really, either, by the way. Ooooh…..he’s such a badass that he had to use three different weapons on the defenseless guy he outweighs by 80 pounds.

So…..storyline wise, Vince just gave Vickie Guerrerro a gilded invitation to sue his ass back to the stone age for sexual harassment/discrimination right there. To hell with the Cena/AJ “intrigue” Vickie….you just landed the biggest fish in the pond.

Did that heart attack damage Lawler’s brain, too? Is he SERIOUSLY defending Santino’s attempted BLATANT cheap shot of Sandow? Jesus Christ, just when I think the commentary can’t get dumber……SAVE_US.SANDOW.

So Lawler thinks Cena and AJ’s kisses were “hot”? Fuck me, I’ve seen better, hotter kisses between the judges and the contestants at the AKC Dog Show. Cena’s got nothing on the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel when it comes to working the tongue, let me tell you.

A bunch of people probably only watch RAW because of this thread. We are supporting such turd. How about we just talk about lovely things here every Monday night, and not watch, and then start watching again when/if it gets better? Imagine how much fun it would be to be happy and amusing here (I don’t believe we watch ironically, not really, or enjoy the badness)?!
Or, imagine if the BandW’s and the comment section was around in the 80’s/90’s? Can we pretend that? Hows about we all watch a really good 90’s RAW together and comment on that. CAN WE JUST PRETEND, PLEASE?!

Are we also pretending that there weren’t some *really* shitty 90s Raws? I mean, whatever’s on the Attitude Era DVD is, like the top 5-10% of the stuff that happened. …I’m not trying to jump on you, so I’m sorry if it sounds that way.

We seem to get off on bitching about how bad things are right now. It’s not, really. We’re not looking forward to Cena v Ziggler, b/c we’re afraid Cena’s going to win (so what if he does? Is that worse than Ziggler being a transitional champ between now and WM?). Some of us don’t like Ryback’s push; but c’mon– he’s not going to be the one facing Rock at the Rumble. We’ve even got people who hate *AJ* now, which I never thought would be possible.

No, it’s cool! I get what you are saying, but I feel the general quality was better back then. Maybe I am just being nostalgic. They were pretty lucky with the amount of top level guys they had at any one time.

In my defence, I just said let’s watch a really good 90’s RAW. I didn’t say they were all good!

I don’t mind Cena winning or Ryback. It’s the general lack of personality on display, or being pushed stupid childish shit as “cool” (eg WALRUS! PEOPLE SPEAK DIFFERENT! etc.). I know there was heaps of stupid shit back in the day, but, eh, I don’t know. Stone Cold was cool in a kinda grown up way, Mick Foley was. And, well, the funny stuff was often funny (E and C, Angle, etc.).

I suppose I felt like these were men, doing stupid manly shit. Now they are all mainly huge toddlers. I’m rambling.